Crank up the Victrola, Margaret

Step into the wayback machine for a sampling of turn-of-the-century (the 19th century) popular songs dealing with recent inventions - moving pictures, automobiles, aeroplanes, the telephone, radio, etc.

Today's selection comes to us courtesy of New World Records and their Recorded Anthology of American Music.

Here is a PDF of the extensive and informative liner notes - six LP-sized pages of information.

Unfortunately, the liner notes don't agree with the actual running order of the first side of the disc.

1 OCEANA ROLL
3 THE GIRL ON THE MAGAZINE COVER
5 HE’D HAVE TO GET UNDER, GET OUT AND GET UNDER
(TO FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE)4 ON THE 5:15
2 HELLO, FRISCO
6 COME, JOSEPHINE, IN MY FLYING MACHINE
8 EVERYBODY WANTS A KEY TO MY CELLAR
7 TAKE YOUR GIRLIE TO THE MOVIES

1 THE ARGENTINES,THE PORTUGUESE AND THE GREEKS
2 MR. RADIO MAN (TELL MY MAMMY TO COME BACK HOME)
3 ALABAMY BOUND
4 ALL ALONE5 THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE (AT THE END OF
HONEYMOON LANE)
6 LINDBERGH (THE EAGLE OF THE U.S.A.)
7 HENRY’S MADE A LADY OUT OF LIZZIE
8 IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU

Come Josephine in my Flying Machine: Inventions and Topics in Popular Song 1910-1928